Thanks to Edinburgh and Horsham Skeptics in the Pubs for submitting proposals for our £500 SitP grant project. Simon Clare from Horsham Skeptics in the Pub wanted to help set up SitPs around Kent, and requested funding to run pilot events in Canterbury, Maidstone and Ashford. His goal is to establish new SitP groups in …
Category Archive: Projects
Mar 19 2013
Final Three Small Grant Awards
We are delighted to announce the final three awards for our small grants: Edinburgh Skeptics on The Fringe Edinburgh Skeptics in the Pub have been running a successful programme of events during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This grant of £1,000 will help support a range of potential ideas, from hosting events in larger venues to greater cross-promotion …
Feb 22 2013
First Two Small Grant Recipients
We are delighted to announce the first two recipients of our small grants. The remaining three grant recipients will be revealed next month. Private Health Screening Awareness £1,000 has been granted to a group headed up by Dr Margaret McCartney, a Glasgow GP and author of The Patient Paradox. Dr McCartney has been vocal in …
Feb 11 2013
Small Grants Update
We had hoped to award our small grants by mid-January, but evaluating the proposals has taken longer than anticipated. The bad news, of course, is that some proposals were unsuccessful, and those involved have already been notified. However, the good news is that we now have a list of five proposals that we will be …
Dec 23 2012
Voting for the Golden Duck at Skeptics in the Pub
Crispian Jago of Winchester Skeptics in the Pub describes the voting process for the Golden Duck: Science, reason, and good thinking are concepts that resonate well with the good folk of Winchester. When Winchester Skeptics in the Pub started inviting science writers, broadcasters and academics to come down and talk about various topics from a …
Dec 23 2012
Adam Finn Comments on the Golden Duck Winner
Adam Finn, Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Bristol, had this to say upon hearing of Wakefield’s victory in the Golden Duck: In the past, a small minority of people thought that vaccines were unsafe, unnecessary and/or unnatural. However, a large majority accepted them as one of the many benefits of modern life, alongside …
Nov 25 2012
David Colquhoun and Suzi Gage Joint Winners of 2012 UK Science Blog Prize
Good Thinking is delighted to announce the results of the 2012 UK Science Blog Prize. Winner: David Colquhoun - DC’s Improbable Science Winner: Suzi Gage - Sifting the Evidence Runner Up: Dorothy Bishop – BishopBlog Runner Up: Ed Yong - Not Exactly Rocket Science Runner Up: Oliver Childs, Henry Scowcroft and Kat Arney – Cancer Research UK Science Update …
Nov 14 2012
The 2012 UK Science Blog Prize Night
Good Thinking, in association with Soho Skeptics, are delighted to present the inaugural UK Science Blog Prize awards evening. At the start of October, Good Thinking asked for nominations to find the best UK science bloggers. Over one hundred blogs were entered. This evening, we’ll be revealing the runners up and presenting the grand prize …
Oct 30 2012
Golden Duck Short-list Announced
Without wishing to scoop Sid too much, the three short-listed candidates for the inaugural Golden Duck are, in no particular order: Charles, Prince of Wales Andrew Wakefield David Tredinnick MP Over the next month or so, a number of Skeptics in the Pub groups will be conducting discussions on the relative merits of each candidate …
Oct 16 2012
Science Blog Prize 2012 Entry Now Closed
Submissions for the 2012 UK Science Blog Prize are now closed. Many, many thanks to everyone who took the time to enter. A last minute surge (including one at 23:59) pushed the number of entries to over one hundred. The judging process starts now and the first stage will be to narrow the entries down …
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